{"id":750,"date":"2010-02-18T22:42:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T20:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=750"},"modified":"2011-06-15T20:59:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T18:59:34","slug":"preparing-the-playfield-for-clear-coating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=750","title":{"rendered":"Preparing the playfield for clear-coating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to prepare the playfield for clear-coating I needed to cover the pop-bumpers in the graveyard. And as the playfield is still in the pinball machine I had to protect the cabinet also.<\/p>\n<p>For the pop-bumpers, I constructed a custom box cover which fit snugly over the pop-bumpers and held it down to the playfield with masking tape, using the stand-up targets as anchors:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_751\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_1766.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-751\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-751\" title=\"IMG_1766\" src=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_1766-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_1766-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_1766.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-751\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graveyard cover<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The cabinet was then protected with newspaper:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_752\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_1765.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-752\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-752\" title=\"IMG_1765\" src=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_1765-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_1765-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_1765.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-752\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Playfield ready for clear-coating<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Incidentally the photos above show that I had originally protected the rear of the playfield as I only wanted to clear-coat the visible areas of the playfield. This, however, would have have made sanding the exposed areas of the playfield harder than it needed to be, so I removed it again, thereby exposing the entire top half of the playfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to prepare the playfield for clear-coating I needed to cover the pop-bumpers in the graveyard. And as the playfield is still in the pinball machine I had to protect the cabinet also. For the pop-bumpers, I constructed a custom box cover which fit snugly over the pop-bumpers and held it down to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1664,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/1664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}